Open AccessData management as bibliography
Author(s) -
Buckland Michael
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
bulletin of the american society for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1550-8366
pISSN - 0095-4403
DOI - 10.1002/bult.2011.1720370611
Subject(s) - metadata , interoperability , computer science , data management plan , data science , permission , standardization , intellectual property , data sharing , prospectus , data management , data discovery , world wide web , political science , business , database , medicine , alternative medicine , finance , pathology , law , operating system
Editor's Summary A critical element in the products of research projects is the data set, largely treated as a marginal appendage to the written record. With the requirement for data management plans in grant proposals to the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health, the issue of managing research data sets is gaining attention. Sharing primary data enables a greater return on the original investment, expanded discovery and fertilization of ideas across disciplines. The major impediment is lack of an infrastructure to archive non‐textual data sets, in addition to hurdles including locating data, deterioration, format standardization, permission for use and suitability. It is essential that institutional policies recognize data sets as a key product of intellectual work worthy of inclusion in a bibliography. This must be followed by action to promote their preservation, metadata enrichment, cross‐lingual interoperability, geographic and temporal coding and data provenance and to contend with changes over time.